Gottfried Ploucquet

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contribution to logic

The work of
Gottfried Ploucquet (1716–90) was based on the ideas of Leibniz, although the symbolic calculus Ploucquet developed does not resemble that of Leibniz (see illustration). The basis of Ploucquet’s symbolic logic was the sign “>,” which he unfortunately used to indicate that two concepts are disjoint—
i.e., having no basic concepts in common; in its...